Category: FAQs

Question: Seagate has released a product called the Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive. This looks exactly like what Windows ReadyBoost attempts to do with software at the OS level:…

Question: I have a 90GB SSD but 90GB soon gets filled up. ?My users folder alone is 26GB. ?To get round this I use Symlinks (read the How-To Geek article…

Question: We have two options; creating a primary partition (say D:) or creating an extended partition, then create a logical partition (say D:) in the extended partition In terms of…

Question: I have a family member who complains that her laptop is slow. I checked the laptop over and indeed, it was slow, so I looked into what was using…

Question: My company gave me a Dell E6540 with a built in 256 GB SSD (way too small). Dell does not make a CDROM replacement SSD for the E6540 (!!!),…

Question: I have an SSD with ~125GB formatted, and it claims ~99GB are consumed. It has been rapidly consuming storage space for weeks. I have found many instances of unexplained…

Question: since two weeks my windows 10 pc got really slow, and I have no idea why. I can still do everything, but everything takes much longer to a degree…

Question: I have a home machine running Windows 7, and I m wondering if it would work to do a command like this: dd if=/dev/${oldSataSpinningDisk} of=/dev/${newSSD} Io clone the contents…

Question: I had an HFS+ formatted drive that was going bad and wouldn’t mount at all on OSX. I created an image using ddrescue on linux, and was able to…

Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? I’m wondering if anyone has any personal experience of RAID 5 2 drive failure with large drives? As I understand it, the theory is that…